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winter. Cabbages, potatoes and onions were stored in the ground. Many other vegetables were canned in half gallon jars. They had chickens, hogs, sheep, anil cows.
“Just about everybody had an orchard of some kind,” he added. “We had dried apples, applesauce and apple butter." He said people would get together for “apple butter peelings." To get things they didn’t raise they would take eggs, a ham or shoulder to the store and barter for coffee, sugar, or flour. “Most people today, if they don’t have a store to go to, they don’t have dinner," he said. “The Depression didn’t mean anything to the people in the mountains."
He said he had been to to the park to visit his family cemeteries. He has also attended campfire talks at the Matthews Arm campground where rangers talk about the mountain people. “I don’t think unless you were there, you could really understand what went on,” he said. “We had good times, but it was hard."
Mr. Dwyer said, “Some did well when they got out of there. A lot didn't. A lot took to the bottle. They didn’t have any psychiatrist to go to." He said very few who got new houses from the government were able to keep them. They got into financial troubles, mortgaged the houses
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